Comments on: PolitiFact or PolitiSpin? http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2011/07/01/politifact-or-politispin/ Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:00:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: Flagstaff http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2011/07/01/politifact-or-politispin/#comment-522 Flagstaff Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:43:50 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/?p=244#comment-522 The proof of the pudding regarding non-partisanship is whether only one side generally complains about it. If the bias weren’t there, why would we be complaining?

PF may not be as bad as some sites, but their blinders are showing if you study just a bit of it. The bias mostly seems to present by nit-picking at petty mistakes of the right, insisting on strict definitional usage of words, finding fault with what is NOT said, and glossing over major errors from the left, supplying exculpatory explanations for obvious mistakes, allowing broad interpretation of leftist words and their intent, basically behaving exactly as the MSM does every day

I got a bee in my bonnet about it when all the talk shows last Sunday decided to use them as a surrogate for “moderate” criticism of Bachmann, including always referring to them as “the Pulitzer prize-winning website, PolitiFact.”

]]> By: neoavatara http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/2011/07/01/politifact-or-politispin/#comment-521 neoavatara Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:32:06 +0000 http://www.redstate.com/flagstaff/?p=244#comment-521 I spend a fair amount of time attacking Politifact because of their inconsistencies. They use one standard, and then shift to another standard when they feel like it.

Pollitifact provides a service, but let us not call them nonpartisan…they simply are not.

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